Young Woman in a Patterned Dress

Cleveland Museum of Art

Young Woman in a Patterned Dress

Date
1860s
Medium
daguerreotype with hand-applied color
Culture
America
Department
Photography
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
536478

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Instead of expressing the sitter’s personality, the pose and composition are structured to draw attention to her prized possession: her best dress. The photographer employed a compositional formula and pose frequently chosen by photographers of that era to show off dresses made from fabric with complex, rhythmic geometric patterns. Before the age of the snapshot, being photographed was a special occasion for which people dressed in their best clothing.

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Gift of Nina Rosenblum and Lisa Rosenblum

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  • Representative object from the topic 19th Century Cased Photographs
    19th Century Cased Photographs

    These objects are all early photographic formats from the mid-19th century, including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes, often hand-tinted and presented in cases.

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